延 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yán HSK4

delay

延 yán

to delay verbnoun: (bound form) to postpone; to put off until a later time; to procrastinate

to extend verbnoun: (bound form) to prolong; to stretch out; to extend in distance or time

to spread verb: (bound form) to spread out; to extend to; to involve others

to invite: (bound form) to invite; to engage; to bring in or recruit someone

Yan: Yan, a Chinese surname

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Cross-References

Has old variant

莚 yán

Frequency

Character

Written text: 1,103rd most common 133.2 per million
Movie subtitles: 1,564th most common 38.9 per million appears in 19% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 5.72 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text: 14.0 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 5
HSK 3.0: Level 4
Strokes: 6
Unicode: U+5EF6

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)